Improvement in corsets



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent NO. 36,272, dated August 26, 1862. Y

To all whom t may concern.: Y

Be it known that I, ADELINE J. BROOKS., of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, in which the gure represents a perspective view of my improved corset.

The object of my improvement' is to produce a corset which, by its flexibility at certain points,will more fully develop the human figure and facilitate its natural movements. The upper portion of the corset is constructed in a usual manner without the use of an intermediate zone Or belt, which impairs the Hexible continuity Of the garment. In the lower part gores A A are inserted. The drawing shows the two gores in front. In the back two similar gores are inserted. Four whalebones, B B B B, extend down from the point where the Whalebones C and C and C and O- meet. These whalebones rest against and are Y partially supported by the whalebones C and C. This corset is made somewhat longer than the usual kind. By the use of the gores AA and the whalebones C C a much better shape ADELINE J. BROOKS.

Witnesses:

MINNIE CHILD, Jos. ROBINSON. 

